UDRP panel orders stolen 3 letter domain name returned to owner
Thursday, July 5th, 2012
EZQ.com should belong to EZQuest, rules panel.
Last month Michael Berkens wrote about how a UDRP panel affirmed that UDRP is not a forum for recovery stolen domain names.
I agree that’s the case — most of the time.
Yet over history some complainants have successfully used UDRP to recover stolen three letter domain names.
That’s the case with EZQ.com, which was just awarded to EZQUEST, INC.
EZQuest says the domain name was stolen earlier this year when the thief managed to get into its Go Daddy account.
When it comes to the element of registering a domain in bad faith, the panelist writes “Hacking a complainant’s registration account is evidence of bad faith pursuant to Policy ¶ 4(a)(iii).”
So I don’t blame anyone for trying to recover a stolen domain through UDRP, especially if you can argue common law rights to the domain. Just be prepared to turn to the courts if it doesn’t work out.
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Isn’t it easier to go to the courts first? You file a police report and then get a court order to have it returned seems to be the way to go but maybe I am missing something.
Shame on godaddy for not stepping up
@help – imagine trying to accomplish what you just described, then compare that to UDRP. UDRP’s been used a few times to recover stolen domain names, this being the latest.
@boohoo – what precisely should Go Daddy do, considering their contract forces them to comply with UDRP anyway?
Godday wants to make money, they sell a separate service which can ask for lot of security questions but their competitors offer only one service with added this security.